Originally Posted on March 21, 2009.
The argument has raged for years that mutual funds and brokers can deliver better returns by their ‘knowledge’ concerning the market. While many investors fall prey to this misinformation, the truth has slowly gotten out and investors are learning. While managed funds still prey upon the ‘greedy’ with the idea that [...]
We see yet again how the financial industry tries to mislead advisors and investors. Become educated and remember–you can’t always believe everything you read! Putnam Absolute Funds came out in early 2009 after the market had collapsed (along with hundreds of other mutual funds–see MF Deception). Mutual Funds success (how much they make) [...]
Originally Posted on April 16 2009.
The coach pounds away on the con game used by mutual fund firms and brokers to create the illusion of good performing funds. The video originally posted April 16, 2009 discussed the launch of Putnum’s Absolute Return Funds. Subsequent video’s show how Bryan was right on when he [...]
What they DON’T tell you about mutual funds…
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So you get that big prospectus but what’s really inside of it? Learn to understand all of the fee’s and expenses that are ‘hidden’ within mutual funds.
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Brokerage firms sell mutual funds with a dizzying array of ‘alphabet letters’ and most investors have no idea what it really means. Watch the video to learn the difference between A, B, C and other share classes.
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Bond funds or mutual funds primarily composed of bonds are sold to investors as a way to ‘diversify’ your risk when investing in bonds. The problem is that when times get tough, bond mutual fund managers must liquidate bond holdings to cover redemptions thus causing investors who are attempting [...]
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American Funds is a mutual fund that is widely recommended by most brokers and firms due to their past performance of being at least ‘decent’ with their returns (when you figure in all costs). The problem is that now American Funds holds over 880 Billion in assets and its size [...]
Just like ’street hustlers’ who take money from unsuspecting people, mutual funds have developed a system that is very much the same. Giving people the ‘illusion’ that there are funds and managers out there with Clairvoyance, they deceptively use the law of large numbers (with a big enough sampling, even flipping a coin which has [...]
